Tutorial

This is my attempt at creating a smoke typography

tutorial found here: http://abduzeedo.com/smoke-type-photoshop-10-steps

thought it was quite effective

Another Tutorial

I felt that a lot of my tutorials were quite similar, a lot of them were photo manipulation as I am quite interested in it. This is also something that i find quite interesting and also quite useful! It is a web design layout.

tutorial can be found here: http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/layouts/cool-photography-layout.html

I really happy with how this turned out!

Tutorial 8

This is my last tutorial! So happy with how this one turned out as well!

Tutorial can be found here: http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-manipulation/how-to-create-a-stormy-fantasy-scene-in-photoshop/Page-1.html

Tutorial 7

skin retouching! i thought i would try this as it would never hurt to know it! i found the tutorials quite basic and easy to finish, also i found one of the tutorials really basic as if it was for beginners.

i completed two different tutorials
1)http://inspiredology.com/photoshop-skin-retouching-tutorial/
2)http://tutorialpulse.com/49/superb-skin-airbrush-technique/

image from first tutorial

second image

Original Image

with this tutorial i more just tried to focus on the face seeing as the arms are not that present in the image.

Digital Workflow Chart

Digital Workflow

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Stage	Deal with client	Capture	Uploading	Sort and Select	Basic Editing	Advanced editing	Back-up	Preparing the files	Deliver to client
Tasks	Brief and contract dealt with- copyright, price, usage, number of images, location, timing (final date for delivery)	File shooting in, (raw+jpeg) colour space (for jpeg) correct gear, lenses, batteries, cards.  Logistics (location)	Software use (lightroom, bridge, original camera software), downloading directly into computer or from card reader, wi-fi, tethered capture. Catalogue files, convert to DNG, Metadata	Reject duds, rate, create collections, flag images, colour labels. (lightroom, bridge)	Colour correction, sharpening, cropping, tonal correction, lens aberration correction, basic exposure, dust removal, noise reduction (colour noise, luminance noise)	Photoshop editing. Retouching photographs, panoramas montages photo manipulation. HDR	Back up final finished files. Correct file format (if edited in photoshop, ps file is backed up so can be correctly opened)	Resizing files, correct resolution, correct file naming/type	Payment
Backup			Yes!	Back-up (optional)		Back-up		Back up exact images going to client.
Notes

Exercises 3 and 4

Tasks

1.       Start Photoshop and create a new document with the following properties :- ·         Name : ‘Ex 3 – Primary Colours’ ·         Size : A4 @ 300dpi ·         Colour Mode : RGB / 8 bpc ·         Background Colour : White 2.       What is the keyboard shortcut for creating a new Document ? Ctrl+N 3.       What is the size of the image in :- §  Megapixels – 8.6       Megabytes  24.9 4.       Set the foreground colour to Red (ie R 255, G 0, B 0). 5.       Select the Ellipse Tool (not the Marquee tool). What is the keyboard shortcut :- U 6.       Draw a circle with the Ellipse tool approximately 6cm in diameter (about 1/3rd of the page width) – display the rulers and use Preferences to set the units to cm . ·         Which key forces the ellipse to be a circle ? Shift 7.       Change the layer name to ‘Red Circle’. 8.       Duplicate the layer and ·         change the colour to green and ·         change the name to ‘Green Circle’.             Note: To change the colour click on the colour button on the option bar immediately after duplicating the layer, or double click on the layer in the Layers palette. 9.       Duplicate this layer and ·         change the colour to blue and ·         change the name to ‘Blue Circle’. 10.   Select the Move tool. What is the keyboard shortcut ?  V 11.   Turn on the ‘Auto-select’ option. 12.   Spread the three circles across the top of the page with a small space above them (they may overlap a bit – that’s OK). 13.   Fit the image to the screen (ie so the whole page is visible). ·         What is the keyboard shortcut for this ? Ctrl+0 14.   Go to Full Screen Mode – ‘View -> Screen Mode ->Full Screen Mode’. ·         What is the keyboard shortcut ? F 15.   Stare at the centre of the middle circle for 20 seconds, then look at the white area below. You will see an after image. ·         What colour are the after images for each circle ? Circle After Image Colour Red Cyan Green Magenta Blue yellow 16.   Select all three layers in the layers palette. 17.   Group the three layers together by selecting ‘Layer -> Group’. ·         What is the keyboard shortcut ? Ctrl G 18.   Select the group in the layers palette containing the three circles. 19.   Change the ‘Blending Mode’ for the group from ‘Pass Through’ to ‘Difference’. (We will be looking at Blending Modes later, so don’t worry if you don’t understand them now). 20.   Stare at the centre of the middle circle for 20 seconds, then look at the white area below. You will see an after image. ·         What colour are the after images for each circle ? Circle After Image Colour Cyan Red Magenta Green Yellow Blue 21.   Save the document as ‘Ex 3 – Colour Theory.psd’ 22.   What is the size of the .psd file on disk ? 1.08 How does this compare to the image size you recorded in step 3 above- It is much larger.

first image

second image

Tasks

1.       Start Photoshop and open the document you created in Exercise 3. ·         What is the keyboard shortcut for opening an existing Document ? Ctrl+O 2.       Change the Blending Mode of the layer Group to ‘Pass Through’. 3.       Make the background layer the working layer by selecting it in the Layers palette. 4.       Use the Rectangular Marquee tool to select the top half of the image. 5.       Use the Paint bucket tool to fill this area with Black. ·         What is the keyboard shortcut for this tool ? G 6.       Change the Blending Mode of the ‘Red Circle’ layer to ‘Lighten’. 7.       Do the same for the Blue and Green Circle layers. 8.       Select the Move tool. ·         What is the keyboard shortcut for this tool ? V 9.       Turn on the ‘Auto-select’ option and set it to ‘Layer’ (Not ‘Group’). 10.   Drag the three circles so they all overlap each other. 11.   This simulates the Additive colour system. 12.   Rename the group of circle layers to indicate this. 13.   Add a text layer (using white text) saying ‘<name> Colour System’. 14.   Select the group of circles in the layers palette. 15.   Duplicate the group using ‘Layer -> Duplicate Group …’. 16.   Use the Move tool with ‘Auto-Select’ set to ‘Group’ to drag the new group to the bottom half of the page. 17.   Change the Blending Mode of the this group to ‘Difference’. 18.   This simulates the Subtractive Colour System. 19.   Add a text layer saying ‘<name> Colour System’. 20.   Save the document as ‘Ex 4 – Primary_Colours.psd’

Colour systems

Tutorial 6

This one was a little difficult and my final image doesn't look similar to the tutorial image

 

tutorial can be found here: http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-manipulation/floating-island-on-water/Page-1.html

Components of the image:

Original image from the tutorial:

as you can see there are several differences between the original image and my final image.